Turkish police detained at least 10 people who were attempting to make press statements at demonstrations in Ankara and İstanbul marking the third anniversary of a bombing in which 33 people died in the southern Turkish town of Suruç in Şanlıurfa province on Friday, according to a report by BirGün daily.
The 2015 attack, believed to have been carried out by the militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), targeted left-wing young people preparing to enter Syria to carry out reconstruction work in solidarity with Kurdish forces fighting ISIL.
Police did not allow the gathering of the mass on the grounds that it is “not permitted by the governor office.” The people, carrying banner reading “Justice for Suruç, justice for everyone,” were chanting slogans when they were attacked by the police with tear gas. Policemen dragged demonstrators on the ground, battered them and detained over 10 people.
Musa Piroğlu, a deputy of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) was also affected by the police violence when he reacted to the crackdown. Journalists covering the scene were also prevented by police from doing their job.
In İstanbul’s Mehmet Ayvalıtaş Park in the neighbourhood of Kadıköy, police used tear gas and plastic bullets on demonstrators and beat several up in the process of detaining them, BirGün said. Among those detained in Kadıköy was BirGün reporter Zeynep Kuray.
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